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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know this is a DCUM tradition and I think it’s really fun and appreciate the OP coming back every year.

It would be really thoughtful if the name for this thread was not lottery ‘Swami’ though. I don’t think people would say lottery Priest or lottery Rabbit or lottery Imam.

A Swami is a Hindu monk. He is also a religious leader of congregations. Like priest, rabbi, Imam. The terms for Hindu figures like Swami and Guru have been ridiculed into caricatures. As something exotic, not ‘real’, as snake oil peddlers, as funny people in weird clothes and that recite strange ‘spells’, Fortune Tellers, etc.

I know this is DCUM and I will get mostly a bunch of snarky replies back but to those of you that are trying your best not to go around making fun of people based on their religion, I hope you will consider evolving past this and into a different, less ridiculing, name.

Thank you. 
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I'd really support this actually. Like we shouldn't casually use "guru". You're right and brave for raising it! 
I'm not saying the original person meant to cause offence and I didn't see it at first. BUT it is time we all recognised these things and take responsibility for self educating and opening our eyes[/quote]

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